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050			_aDUCE PE1075 .M5995
100			_aMEYER, Charles F _qCharles F.Meyer
245			_aIntroducing English Linguistics/ _cCharles F.Meyer
260			_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2009.
300			_ax, 259 p. _bill.; _c26 cm. _eBook
500			_aIncludes References and index.
520			_aThis chapter provides an overview of how linguists approach the study of language. It describes language as one of many different systems of communication, a system that is unique to human beings and different from, for instance, the systems of communication that animals employ. Language exists in three modes: speech, writing, and signs (which are used by people who are deaf). Although all languages (with the exception of sign languages) exist in spoken form, only some have written forms. To study language, linguists focus on two levels of description: pragmatics, the study of how context (both social and linguistic) affects language use, and grammar, the description of how humans form linguis tic structures, from the level of sound up to the sentence. _uhttp://172.20.27.22:4000/handle/123456789/27
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